Face The Nation
U.S.-Iran deal is “within our reach,” Omani mediator says
By Margaret Brennan, Joe Walsh
Updated on: February 27, 2026 / 5:39 PM EST / CBS News
Negotiators from the U.S. and Iran have made “substantial progress” toward a deal to curb Iran’s nuclear program, Omani Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi told CBS News on Friday, as President Trump considers strikes on Iran.
Albusaidi — who has mediated several rounds of U.S.-Iran talks over the last month — told “Face the Nation” moderator Margaret Brennan that a “peace deal is within our reach.”
He said Iran has agreed that it will “never, ever have … nuclear material that will create a bomb,” which he called a “big achievement.” The country’s existing stockpiles of enriched uranium would be “blended to the lowest level possible” and “converted into fuel, and that fuel will be irreversible,” according to Albusaidi.
And Iran is willing to grant inspectors from the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency “full access” to its nuclear sites to verify the terms of the deal, said Albusaidi.
“There would be zero accumulation, zero stockpiling, and full verification,” he said. Albusaidi said that if there is a fair and endurable deal in place, he is “quite confident” that even American inspectors will have access at some point in the process.
Asked if he believes enough progress has been made to avert U.S. strikes on Iran, Albusaidi responded: “I hope so.” But he said “we need a little bit more time” to iron out some details. Technical talks are scheduled for Monday in Vienna, and Albusaidi said he hopes that he can meet with U.S. negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner a few days afterward.
Mr. Trump struck a different tone earlier Friday, telling reporters he is “not happy” with the pace of negotiations and had not yet decided whether to authorize strikes. …
Albusaidi … said he believes both the U.S. and Iranian sides are “very, very serious to reach a deal.” He suggested that a deal could be struck imminently….
“If I was President Trump, my only advice is just to give those negotiators enough room and enough space to really close these remaining areas that we need to discuss and agree upon,” said Albusaidi.
[Editor’s Comment: Trump and Netanyahu bombed Iran the very next day. Talks were scheduled to resume two days later on Monday. Instead of the US media telling the truth about the negotiations stated above, they widely reported over and over Trump’s complete lie:
“I’m not happy with the fact that they’re not willing to give us what we have to have… I never heard the words ‘we will not build a bomb.’ I never heard them.”
Compare that to what Albusaidi said:
Iran has agreed that it will “never, ever have … nuclear material that will create a bomb.”
The US media is complicit in pushing all of our unjust, immoral, mass-murder Middle East wars. The US media, left and right lies by commission and especially omission — what they won’t tell Americans, even to this day — for example, who really did 9/11, which was planned and orchestrated by Mossad and the CIA.]